Welcome to the Gordon Moody blog – news and views from the team with a personal slant.
Why I Joined Gordon Moody – Building Stronger Communities for Mental Health Awareness Week
15 May 2025By Clarke Carlisle – Business Development Manager, Gordon Moody When I speak about mental health, I’m speaking from lived experience. I’ve seen the darkness of depression, battled with suicidal thoughts, and (Read More)
Monica Shafaq – Reflections on my first 100 days as Gordon Moody CEO
25 April 2024Monica Shafaq joined Gordon Moody as CEO in January 2024. Below, she reflects on her first 100 days with the organisation in her own words. My initial days with Gordon Moody (Read More)
Dave’s fundraising walk following Charlton Athletic FC
22 March 2024In early March 2024, Dave Hollingsworth – our Lived Experience & Engagement Lead – took on a challenge to raise funds for Gordon Moody. In his own words, here is the (Read More)
How I coped with ‘Horror Hotel’ during my gambling recovery
22 September 2023Alumni, Jo Mustapha, joined the Gordon Moody team at Manchester Pride in August. Here she tells her story about overcoming her fears to travel to Manchester. (Read More)
Volunteering – how it helped my recovery from gambling addiction
1 June 2023Paul is an ex-service user and as part of Volunteers Week, details his experience of volunteering during treatment and recovery. Throughout, my 20 years of addiction, I always helped people where (Read More)
EX-SERVICE USERS TRAVEL TO SCOTLAND FOR SELF-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
3 April 2023In early March, Dave Hollingsworth, the Residential Treatment Manager at our Beckenham centre, took part in a self-development programme in Scotland with ex-service users of Gordon Moody. In his own words, (Read More)
BURNS NIGHT CELEBRATION AT BECKENHAM
2 February 2023In keeping with tradition, our Beckenham treatment centre held their communal Burns Night supper on January 25th 2023. A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns (25 (Read More)
The Moody Cup
21 July 2022On the afternoon of Friday 8th July 2022, a group of Gordon Moody employee’s, service users, and ex-service users came together to take part in a 5-a-side football event called The (Read More)
Gordon Moody’s Outreach Therapist tells her own story of recovery
7 March 2022Kerri, 40, had never gambled online (I had gambled at casinos previously) before she and her partner started making £1 online bets on the football games they loved to watch together. “It began as (Read More)
“Oidhche Bhlas Burns” – Happy Burns Night
25 January 2022The team and residents at Beckenham celebrate Burn’s night with the traditional Scottish dish of haggis, neeps and tatties. (Read More)